Yuz Aleshkovsky. The Penultimate Life. Notes of a Lucky Man

Novel-Dream-Recipe...
The novel is a declaration of love for Creation as a whole and for its individual “crowns of thorns” in particular.
A course in modern history with elements of analysis, presented in Yuzov's signature "original genre."
The "penultimate" attempt to formulate my mature thoughts as closely as possible to my overripe feelings, lyrical, tragic, prophetic, religious... to create a hieroglyph that describes the fullness of the sensation of my stay on earth between two eternities...
"Trust" as a creative method and an exceptionally risky approach for the moth-thinker to that very flame of final KNOWLEDGE, which, either salvifically or through sacrifice, passes into great IGNORANCE.
A desperate attempt to look from the outside at a herd of pigs rushing towards the abyss "under the wise guidance" of the demons that have possessed them...
A book about a tasty and healthy life with an unexpectedly happy ending and a poor prognosis...